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Moving goalposts alert! 🚨
Yesterday (and previously) the "Global Death Comparison" slide in the UK press briefing started on the day each country recorded its 50th death.

Today, it suddenly changed to the day each country recorded its 2000th death! (Left = yesterday, r = today)
Here are all the slides that have been issued day by day, so that you can look through them for yourself...
gov.uk/government/col…
Of course, by shifting from 50 deaths to 2,000 deaths, they've neatly airbrushed out the point at which our curve crossed the ones from other countries.
The other effect of the scale change is to squash South Korea's line further against the x-axis, because of course South Korea has suffered only 246 deaths in total. (5 deaths per million population, whereas the UK suffered 384 deaths per million, nearly 77x worse!)
Some day, if the government doesn't mysteriously "disappear" the slides from the online record, I believe PhD theses will be written on the manipulation that went on during the course of the pandemic, with each day's slides finely tuned to always show the UK in a good light.
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